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Full Idea
The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's.
Gist of Idea
The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's
Source
Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations (To Himself) [c.170], 7.61)
Book Ref
'Essential Works of Stoicism', ed/tr. Hadas,Moses [Bantam 1961], p.158
Related Idea
Idea 18292 I can only believe in a God who can dance [Nietzsche]
| 6013 | Panaetius said we should live according to our natural starting-points [Panaetius, by Asmis] |
| 13318 | Nature doesn't give us virtue; we must unremittingly pursue it, as a training and an art [Seneca] |
| 13324 | Living contrary to nature is like rowing against the stream [Seneca] |
| 3069 | The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius] |
| 4856 | To live according to reason is to live according to the laws of human nature [Spinoza] |
| 4493 | Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"? [Nietzsche] |
| 4494 | Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity [Nietzsche] |
| 4498 | 'Love your enemy' is unnatural, for the natural law says 'love your neighbour and hate your enemy' [Nietzsche] |